Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 April 1898 — Spain. [ARTICLE]

Spain.

It is to be borne in mind that Spain is such a little thing she could be picked up and laid out in Texas, and Texas would still have 76,686 square miles of territory to spare. Four of our States taken together have a greater population than Spain has, and their people are far more intelligent, too. Only one nation in Europe is lower in the scale of general enlightenment than Spain. Sixty-eight per eent. of her population can neither read nor write, and her credit is about as bad as it qan be. The biggest thing in Spain Is her national debt.—Boston Herald.